Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare, elusive disease, carrying a 10%-30% mortality. Requiring a high index of suspicion, IE affects damaged native valves and prosthetic valves. While there are a number of inherent risk factors that predispose patients to IE, dental work in the preceding six weeks...

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Autores principales: Bridwell, Rachel E, Larson, Neil P, Birdsong, Sara, Long, Brit, Goss, Sarah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33489556
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12144
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Birdsong, Sara
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Goss, Sarah
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description Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare, elusive disease, carrying a 10%-30% mortality. Requiring a high index of suspicion, IE affects damaged native valves and prosthetic valves. While there are a number of inherent risk factors that predispose patients to IE, dental work in the preceding six weeks is often a culprit of disease, colonizing damaged native mitral valves with Streptococcus viridans species. Traditionally, flossing has been suggested to be protective against IE. We present a case of S. gordonii subacute IE on a regurgitant native mitral valve secondary to vigorous flossing.
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spelling pubmed-78135352021-01-22 Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management Bridwell, Rachel E Larson, Neil P Birdsong, Sara Long, Brit Goss, Sarah Cureus Cardiology Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare, elusive disease, carrying a 10%-30% mortality. Requiring a high index of suspicion, IE affects damaged native valves and prosthetic valves. While there are a number of inherent risk factors that predispose patients to IE, dental work in the preceding six weeks is often a culprit of disease, colonizing damaged native mitral valves with Streptococcus viridans species. Traditionally, flossing has been suggested to be protective against IE. We present a case of S. gordonii subacute IE on a regurgitant native mitral valve secondary to vigorous flossing. Cureus 2020-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7813535/ /pubmed/33489556 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12144 Text en Copyright © 2020, Bridwell et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management
title Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management
title_full Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management
title_fullStr Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management
title_full_unstemmed Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management
title_short Native Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis From Flossing: A Case Report and Emergency Department Management
title_sort native mitral valve infective endocarditis from flossing: a case report and emergency department management
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813535/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12144
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